diff --git a/package/startup-notification/Config.in b/package/startup-notification/Config.in
index 88d18174bc..4f4a651e68 100644
--- a/package/startup-notification/Config.in
+++ b/package/startup-notification/Config.in
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+config BR2_STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION_0_9
+	bool "startup-notification 0.9"
+
+config BR2_STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION_0_12
+	bool "startup-notification 0.12"
+
+config BR2_STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION
+	string
+	default "0.9"	if BR2_STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION_0_9
+	default "0.12"	if BR2_STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION_0_12
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_STARTUP_NOTIFICATION
 	bool "startup-notification"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7
diff --git a/package/startup-notification/startup-notification.hash b/package/startup-notification/startup-notification.hash
index 474c8bd92c..f213a73ba3 100644
--- a/package/startup-notification/startup-notification.hash
+++ b/package/startup-notification/startup-notification.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  c2fa09f9a49d8b319e79638e49e967c682df8726006e03059b1ffca5ab82099c  startup-notification-0.9.tar.gz
+sha256	3c391f7e930c583095045cd2d10eb73a64f085c7fde9d260f2652c7cb3cfbe4a  startup-notification-0.12.tar.gz
 sha256  29935974beae046f50da806b5f4e54532401dd7bcfbc696a0b645f4cbcce9dbb  COPYING
diff --git a/package/startup-notification/startup-notification.mk b/package/startup-notification/startup-notification.mk
index b3314087f5..65469a759e 100644
--- a/package/startup-notification/startup-notification.mk
+++ b/package/startup-notification/startup-notification.mk
@@ -3,11 +3,15 @@
 # startup-notification
 #
 ################################################################################
-
-STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION = 0.9
+STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION))
 STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_SITE = http://freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/releases
 STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_DEPENDENCIES = xlib_libX11
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_VERSION_0_12), y)
+STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_DEPENDENCIES += xcb-util
+endif
+
 STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_CONF_ENV = lf_cv_sane_realloc=yes
 STARTUP_NOTIFICATION_CONF_OPTS = --with-x \
 	--x-includes="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/X11" \